please go to http://trollpilgrimage.blogspot.com/ for the travel blog about the trip... i did not realize it had a separate address...
cheers!
Monday, March 29, 2010
last evening...
I just came from a small dinner party at Malay Satay Restaurant, amazing food. I said my final good bye to my friends from the south end (Beacon Hill and Columbia city) awesome and sad, i was also tired from last minute chores.
So, i gave myself two months, ten days, to get ready for trip and get out of apartment... i can't believe i was cleaning out the apartment until today midday. tomorrow early i go to airport...
i had so much help from so many friends to get to this point of my trip... i am fairly independent but moving, is the one time i really need to rely on others, and i had more than enough help. rides to places. people getting me boxes. people hanging out with me while i was doing tedious sorting and boxing. i got invited out for drinks and dinners as farewells..
and what i liked most is at the end, i got to spend whole days with special peeps to really connect and bond.
my move into storage went exceptionally well and the reports back i got was that it was not too painful for the others. the prices for storage went up a lot. i am chocking at the price. but one year of storage cost as much as many people's monthly mortgage payment, so i am using that to bolster me as travel fund gets a big bite out of it.
then i lived in the almost empty apartment for another week. It was surprising how long those last little bits take. Last time i took only two weeks to get my affairs in order, it was such a frenzied blur i remembered nothing from that experience. this time round i had enough time to be conscious of it all.
when people ask me details about my travel plans, i have nothing to give, since i really havent done my homework. I am kind of winging it, because i find over planning travel more painful. When i first started traveling i used to do so much homework mostly to sooth my nerves. The minute i got a little comfortable with travel i turned into a planning slacker...so tomorrow 8:30am I will fly to Rome
So, i gave myself two months, ten days, to get ready for trip and get out of apartment... i can't believe i was cleaning out the apartment until today midday. tomorrow early i go to airport...
i had so much help from so many friends to get to this point of my trip... i am fairly independent but moving, is the one time i really need to rely on others, and i had more than enough help. rides to places. people getting me boxes. people hanging out with me while i was doing tedious sorting and boxing. i got invited out for drinks and dinners as farewells..
and what i liked most is at the end, i got to spend whole days with special peeps to really connect and bond.
my move into storage went exceptionally well and the reports back i got was that it was not too painful for the others. the prices for storage went up a lot. i am chocking at the price. but one year of storage cost as much as many people's monthly mortgage payment, so i am using that to bolster me as travel fund gets a big bite out of it.
then i lived in the almost empty apartment for another week. It was surprising how long those last little bits take. Last time i took only two weeks to get my affairs in order, it was such a frenzied blur i remembered nothing from that experience. this time round i had enough time to be conscious of it all.
when people ask me details about my travel plans, i have nothing to give, since i really havent done my homework. I am kind of winging it, because i find over planning travel more painful. When i first started traveling i used to do so much homework mostly to sooth my nerves. The minute i got a little comfortable with travel i turned into a planning slacker...so tomorrow 8:30am I will fly to Rome
Saturday, March 20, 2010
storage finally
tomorrow is the big move into storage.. i will have ten days left after that to play and not sort stuff..nice change of pace.
I basically have too much stuff, especially if i wanted a small storage unit and pay less in storage fees. i think the reasons artist need to sell art is so that it does not consume there living and storage spaces... a project i will worry about when i get back from next trip.. even though i feel i am paying too much for storage... it was another key turn in my mind, unlocking something in me to open up to the trip ahead. once things are in storage, it will be a 'done deal' it will feel irreversible like when i walked away from a safe job... i called it a wonderful kind of choicelessness to my friend today..... each step making reversal more difficult and therefore enabling the causes of starting something new to unfold...so tomorrow, just physical lugging..simple enough
I basically have too much stuff, especially if i wanted a small storage unit and pay less in storage fees. i think the reasons artist need to sell art is so that it does not consume there living and storage spaces... a project i will worry about when i get back from next trip.. even though i feel i am paying too much for storage... it was another key turn in my mind, unlocking something in me to open up to the trip ahead. once things are in storage, it will be a 'done deal' it will feel irreversible like when i walked away from a safe job... i called it a wonderful kind of choicelessness to my friend today..... each step making reversal more difficult and therefore enabling the causes of starting something new to unfold...so tomorrow, just physical lugging..simple enough
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